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soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	great_a	3,866	5	3.4970	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57190	Vituli labiorum. Or, A thanksgiving sermon, in commemoration of our great deliverance from the horrid Powder-Plot, 1605 And also of Gods merciful discovery of a bloody conspiracy against His Majesties Person, and the Protestant religion, 1678. Both intended by the papists. Preached at St. Peter's, Exon, Nov. 5. 1678. In prosecution whereof the Churches persecutions, foreign and domestick, by the hands of popish votaries, ever since the Reformation, are briefly recapitulated. Their charge of novelty on our church and religion is retorted. The absurdity of many of their doctrines and principles, and how destructive unto civil government, is detected. By John Reynolds, M.A.	Reynolds, John, d. 1693?	1678 (1678)	Wing R1318; ESTC R219030	19,513	36

uncharitable factions and divisions of others by the loose Drunkenness and the loud Swearing by the gross Whoredoms and Uncleanness by the universal lukewarmness that is amongst us But perhaps God foresaw that our ruin had been a mortal wound to the Protestant Religion throughout Christendom or might have set the whole true Church of God in the world a-bleeding in such an hopeless manner as would not have been easily stanched again and so considering his Church amongst us as so main a part of the true Catholick body perhaps God hath spared and delivered us who were a part in faithfulness to the whole III. And now let me obtain a little of your Patience for the third thing remarked in my Text and that is the Churches thankful Reflexion on her afflictions and the happy issue of them suggested by the Psalmist Let Israel NOW say Just the same triumphing Epenthesis in the midst of a sense that we find Psal. 124. 1 2. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side now may Israel say If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us Then they had swallowed us up quick c. Let Israel NOW especially say and glory hereof in that the Lord hath been pleased to warm our hearts a-new with the fresh sense of a discovery perhaps of little less moment than that which this day commemorates unto us Let Israel now say yea and as our Psalmist descants upon it Let us say it over again and again MANY MANY a time have they afflicted me yet they have not prevailed against me You come home to the very heart of God by a grateful acknowledgment of his mercies you set him up a new Pearl in his Crown for thus we sometimes find God himself as it were decking his name with new Titles taken from the Mercies and Deliverances which he hath wrought for his People I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of bondage and the Lord which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the North-country and the like In Psal. 22. 3. he is elegantly said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inhabiting the praises of Israel that is either dwelling in and among the Tribes of Israel who celebrated his praises or inhabiting the place the Tabernacle the Ark whither they brought and rendred his praises to him But why inhabiting the Praises of Israel Were there not many other sorts of offerings which the Devotion of Israel prescribed him besides Praises yes but praises carry the garland from them all because he should not so soon be dislodged out of them but should longer inhabit Praises than any legal services whatsoever according to that saying amongst their Iewish Writers that every Corban or Sacrifice should cease but that the Sacrifice of Praise Therefore with all the most signal Praises let Israel now say and say aloud too that if possible the eccho of our rejoycings might carry terrour and trouble over all their Papal Monarchy that although they have many times afflicted us yet they have not prevailed against us Can you do less in zeal for your Religion than celebrate the praises of God for the preservation of it especially when the safety of your persons your lives and all that is near and dear unto you is concerned equally with your Religion But unto you that are in Authority above others I humbly remonstrate Doth not the blood of that Worthy Knight and Justice of the Peace Sir Edmundbury Godfrey unto whose Title we may now superadd the Martyr a thousand times more deservedly than the Romish Party do Canonize for Martyrs Garnet Winter Digby and other instruments of the Powder-plot I say Doth not his blood cry loud enough to rouse and awaken all your Zeal Care and Courage against those Catholick Murderers Are not his wounds so many mouths to bespeak you plain enough that he hath but acted that part which you all must do if you ever come to lye at their mercy I do believe indeed that this County of Devon is as clean and free of this sort of Locusts as any one shire in England yet had this late Conspiracy taken effect you would have found by this time such numberless swarms of them filling the City and the whole Country about as if the Marian Generation had risen out of the Earth again And had this come to pass then instead of an opportunity to celebrate our Deliverance from the Treason of this fifth of November it would have been accounted on the other hand a new fifth of November's Treason only to dare call it such We could not have adventured here to meet together for the offering up our sacrifice of praise to God without the danger of the Galileans fate to have our blood mingled with our sacrifices and for you in special that wear the badg of Magistracy on you to have your scarlet-Gowns dipt afresh in your own gore Now therefore to excite you to vigilancy against the seeding of any of those evil tares amongst us I shall only present you with two Considerations 1. The Absurdity of their Doctrines I mean their Doctrines distinctive and characteristick of Papists as such even to common sense and reason and much more to become matters of Faith For example as to their Doctrine of Indulgences which gave the first offence unto our Reformers what more ridiculous than to believe what the Preachers of Pope Leo the Tenth published out of their Pulpits that at the sound of the money as it was cast into the Bason those souls whom they intended to buy out of Purgatory skipped and leaped for joy amidst the flames and presently mounted out of Purgatory What greater violence to Reason than to believe their Doctrine of Infallibility Place it where you will either in their Popes or in their Councils of both which there have been manifold instances of their contradicting and nullifying the acts of each other and yet both must be held infallible Can you reconcile it unto any honest mind and understanding that the common people should be able to serve God acceptably in a publick worship sealed up in an unknown tongue That Doctrine of Transubstantiation what is it but an opium that stupefies all the senses of a man For a man must belye not only his own but the senses of all the world besides whereby we know bread to be bread and wine to be wine because we see it and taste it and feel it before we can receive this gross Tenet What an unreasonable thing is it to have their not-written Traditions imposed upon us for a rule of faith equally with the holy Scriptures and yet none of them in the mean time vouchsafe to inform us how many these Traditions be or to be continually forging new Articles of Faith as indispensably necessary to Salvation and yet never